[stunnel-users] Web browsing over stunnel

Mon Nov 6 22:57:16 CET 2017

> From: Josealf.rm <josealf at rocketmail.com>
> Sent: Friday, November 3, 2017 1:21 PM
> To: Osvald Brko
> Cc: stunnel-users at stunnel.org
> Subject: Re: [stunnel-users] Web browsing over stunnel

> It’s because the web site GETs a request  for  http://127.0.0.1/ not for http://www.stunnel.org/

> Just as an academic exercise, you may want to add this line to your hosts file (usually in \windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts):

> 127.0.0.1 www.stunnel.net

> Then change your connect line‭ to the IP address of  www.stunnel.net (now 104.239.213.7 or 198.105.254.11).

> And test again.

> Saludos
> Jose Alfredo Diaz

Hi,
I am not sure if I understand you right. What this academic exercise should reveal?
It just try to connect to 127.0.0.1 ...?

hosts:
#127.0.0.1       localhost
127.0.0.1 www.stunnel.org

browser:
http://www.stunnel.org:8888/

stunnel.conf :
[https_test]
client = yes
accept = 127.0.0.1:8888
connect = www.stunnel.org:443

2017.11.06 22:14:28 LOG7[main]: Service [https_test] (FD=260) bound to 127.0.0.1:8888
2017.11.06 22:14:28 LOG7[cron]: Cron thread initialized
2017.11.06 22:14:42 LOG7[main]: Found 1 ready file descriptor(s)
2017.11.06 22:14:42 LOG7[main]: FD=236 ifds=r-x ofds=---
2017.11.06 22:14:42 LOG7[main]: FD=248 ifds=r-x ofds=---
2017.11.06 22:14:42 LOG7[main]: Service [https_test] accepted (FD=284) from 127.0.0.1:2372
2017.11.06 22:14:42 LOG7[main]: Creating a new thread
2017.11.06 22:14:42 LOG7[main]: New thread created
2017.11.06 22:14:42 LOG7[0]: Service [https_test] started
2017.11.06 22:14:42 LOG7[0]: Option TCP_NODELAY set on local socket
2017.11.06 22:14:42 LOG5[0]: Service [https_test] accepted connection from 127.0.0.1:2372
2017.11.06 22:14:42 LOG6[0]: s_connect: connecting 127.0.0.1:443
2017.11.06 22:14:42 LOG7[0]: s_connect: s_poll_wait 127.0.0.1:443: waiting 10 seconds
2017.11.06 22:14:43 LOG3[0]: s_connect: connect 127.0.0.1:443: Connection refused (WSAECONNREFUSED) (10061)
2017.11.06 22:14:43 LOG3[0]: No more addresses to connect
2017.11.06 22:14:43 LOG5[0]: Connection reset: 0 byte(s) sent to TLS, 0 byte(s) sent to socket
2017.11.06 22:14:43 LOG7[0]: Local descriptor (FD=284) closed
2017.11.06 22:14:43 LOG7[0]: Service [https_test] finished (0 left)